Favorite Lines From The Movies
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"What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey. That's a pretty good idea. I'll give you the moon, Mary." - James Stewart as George Bailey in "It's a Wonderful Life."
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"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." ~ Merle Oberon as Cathy Earnshaw - Linton in Wuthering Heights "If you are fighting, stop fighting. If you are marching, stop marching. Come back to me. Come back to me is my request." ~ Nicole Kidman as Ada Monroe in Cold Mountain "You make me want to be a better man." ~ Jack Nicholson as Melvin Udall in As Good As It Gets "Sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here." - Jack Nicholson as Melvin Udall in As Good As It Gets "You know you don't have to act with me, Steve. You don't have to say anything, and you don't have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and... blow." ~ Lauren Bacall as Marie "Slim" Browning in To Have and Have Not
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" Dibs On The Mountain Guide" ~ A line from the latest version of Journey to the Center of the Earth with the lovely Anita Briem
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"You had a leak? You call what's goin' on around here a leak? Boy, the last time there was a leak like this, Noah built hisself a boat." - Wilford Brimley as Asst. U.S. Atty. Gen. James A. Wells in "Absence of Malice."
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1.21 JIGOWATTS?????!!!!! (pulls at his hair)... One... POINT... TWENTY.... ONE.... JIGOWATTS????!!!!!!!!
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Otto: Don't call me stupid. Wendy: Why on earth not? Otto: Oh, you English are *so* superior, aren't you? Well, would you like to know what you'd be without us, the good ol' U.S. of A. to protect you? I'll tell you. The smallest fucking province in the Russian Empire, that's what! So don't call me stupid, lady. Just thank me. A Fish Called Wanda
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'I'll have what she's having"......Lady in Diner sitting next to Meg Ryan in 'WHEN HARRY MET SALLY" "I love the smell of napalm in the morning".......Apocolypse Now "There's No Crying in Baseball".......Tom Hanks, League of their own "Put your hands on me, Jack".......Kate Winslet to Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic
: "I Coulda' Been a Contender".....Marlon Brando On The Waterfront
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This is surely more than a one-liner, but it's just too fabulous to not post here. The 'visual' of this rant is even better than the transcript (see YouTube link at the bottom of this post). And (unfortunately), what an odd coincidence it is, that this bit from a 1976 flick is so relevant today.
From the film 1976 "Network" (won 4 Oscars, and was nominated for 6 more): Howard Beale: I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's work, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad. Howard Beale: [shouting] You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, Goddamnit! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, [shouting] Howard Beale: 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: Howard Beale: [screaming at the top of his lungs] "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"
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"Somebody, Somebody, STop Me.......Jim Carrey - The Mask
"Pay No attention to the man behind the curtain"....Wizard - Wizard of Oz "I Don't Know Nuttin' bout' birthin' no babies".....Prissy - Gone With the Wind "I swear as God is my judge, I'll never be hungry again".....Scarlet Ohara -Gone With the Wind
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"My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs!" - Sean Connery as James Bond in "Goldfinger."
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I Didn't Teach My Children to sit in the back of the bus go in there and fight for your rights Joanne Woodward in Philadelphia Nobody Puts Baby In A Corner Johnny Castle Dirty Dancing
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"And now my friend, the first-a rule of Italian driving. (Franco rips off his rear-view mirror and throws it out of the car) What's-a behind me is not important." - Raul Julia as Franco Bertollini in "The Gumball Rally"
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"I have a bad feeling about this"
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"A good man draws a circle around himself and cares for those within. His woman, his children. Other men draw a larger circle and bring within their brothers and sisters. But some men have a great destiny. They must draw around themselves a circle that includes many, many more. Your father was one of those men. You must decide for yourself whether you are, as well." ~ from 10,000 BC
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"You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?" http://www.filmsite.org/wavfiles/dirtyharry.wav
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" Are You A Mod Or A Rocker?"......" I'm A Mocker! " ~ Ringo's reply to a question in Hard Day's Night
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Will Turner: You cheated. Jack Sparrow: Pirate.
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Quint: Here's to swimmin' with bow-legged women.
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I swear it's like I'm playin' cards with my brother's kids or somethin'...you nerve-wrackin' sons-of-bitches! - Johnny Tyler, Tombstone
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"Life is like a box of chocolates....you never know what you're gonna get" Forrest Gump